Though both philosophers believed in social contract, people coming together to agree on a government, their understanding of good government was fundamentally different. Hobbes believed life was "short, nasty, and brutish." - that people were naturally evil. To create order, people must come together and give up their decision making rights to one person - a dictator/king/tyrant. Locke, disagreeing, argued that humans were social and needed to get along in order to survive. Locke posited that government was created by the people only in order to protect their natural rights (sound familiar?). Whose government would you want to live under? Check out the chart at the following website for more details...

Visiting Versailles...

The court of Versailles was the center of political power in France from 1682, when Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in October 1789 after the beginning of the French Revolution. Versailles is therefore famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy of France.